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BP Gregory@bpgregory.bsky.social |
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Author and avid reader of eerie Australiana, scifi and horror. She/her.
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BP Gregory
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One of the horror writing techniques I admire the most is to open with one character, and syke b*tch they DIE at the end of the first chapter, the novel's actually about this OTHER character hope you didn't get too attached to that first one It's so bold and tricky to execute
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BP Gregory
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I've found a brand of dark roasted extra strong low-acid coffee and am nobly resisting the urge to cannonball eight cups and go out like a War Boy
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BP Gregory
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I #write about the horror of staring dry-eyed into the blank and uncaring void of the universe but also the true horror of what if they banned coffee
www.bpgregory.com/novel-outermen
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BP Gregory
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Work's free book exchange absolutely delivering the goods again this week
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BP Gregory
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99% of my job can be done from home, I mostly come into the office because I love seeing people miss the elevator
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BP Gregory
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Ugh I accidentally touched the hand of the young man handing me my bagel; now I have to marry him to mitigate the shame
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WildGorillaMan
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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”
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... I think this is the moment she realises The Beast is just some guy, we're all just some guy, and if she wants adventure in the great wide somewhere she's going to have to hitch up her britches and go find it herself
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.. let's also spend a few moments on the flash of disappointment on Belle's face when the Beast is turned into just some guy It's there. We all see it.
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BP Gregory
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... also for a small alpine town the egg economy must have been absolutely wild
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BP Gregory
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... now we're getting into how uncomfortable I think I would be drinking tea that's been poured out of somebody's face
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So it turns out my partner has never seen Beauty & the Beast. I'm explaining there's this girl who sings a song straight to her neighbour's faces about how they're a bunch of provincial rubes but SHE wants to travel ... then she goes 100m down the road to the nearest castle
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BP Gregory
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I freely admit it was a mistake to read Tender Is The Flesh while hungry
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BP Gregory
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Tea rice and tempura chicken nuggies are a valid dinner and yes I am an actual adult why do you ask
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Marguerite Bennett nails it in Years of Future Past.
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BP Gregory
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Marketing it as a choice is so gross when it's structured to be implemented by employers against their most powerless workers 🤮
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BP Gregory
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Experiencing a brain-drain and responding by making your country less attractive to skilled workers is quite the flex
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BP Gregory
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Trying to find anything on a corporate intranet is like the worst version of Colossal Cave Adventure
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BP Gregory
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Shoutout to Australian National University for being as Australian as possible when generating graphics for their papers
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BP Gregory
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Just me and some terrible billionaires. Or as I like to call it "the larder"
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BP Gregory
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Gaston's murder must have ruined the local egg economy
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BP Gregory
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I'm writing about the importance of family, but also the importance of knowing that skinning a large predatory monster to make your beloved daughter a coat is much more difficult than the instructions made it seem
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Would still pat
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AR (Idiot Witch)
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Halfway thru CUCKOO by @scumbelievable.bsky.social and wow did you know Books were back, they're good again awoouuu
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BP Gregory
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F*ck yeah it was!
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BP Gregory
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Humans saw "perma"frost and thought absof*ckinglutely not
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BP Gregory
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It's like the marketing team looked into my very soul
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... kind of unAustralian for them to sneak in the maintenance access without a filming permit, the camera guy ask "Are we ok to do this?" and for the entire crew to not immediately berate him with "What are you some kind of WUSSBAG"
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BP Gregory
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... JUST EAT THE DAMN ORANGE
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BP Gregory
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... for a film called The Tunnel it seems to be taking an awfully long time for anyone to get into the tunnels
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This seems fine
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Finally watching The Tunnel and feeling so much national pride when Australians in a horror movie are as Australian as possible
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My cat on discovering that the unforgivable slop* I have dared serve her is actually tasty *eye wateringly expensive fancy food for her sensitive tummy
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BP Gregory
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Slower astronauts
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I love how they say "more humanlike" and then THESE are the two pictures they choose
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"Robots of the future could be wrapped in lifelike skin that can repair itself"
Look ... just .... can't we have a normal day
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BP Gregory
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I love how they say "bonus hitchhiker" and not terrifying space fart
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... "The trouble comes when libraries start to become sole providers for these things: when years of cost-cutting mean that the state has reneged on its responsibilities to the troubled, the poor, the educationally challenged, the lonely, the unwell, the lost or the homeless"
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"They’d already received an urgent request from the housing team ... about someone who had to scan a form by 2pm if he was going to be housed before Christmas. Could the library help?"
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... my cinematic chums, I've been at work all day and I'm already so tired I don't need this
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Once again I am begging directors to use ANY futuristic style other than "bright lights and flashes directly in the viewer's eyes"
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Love sitting at my computer in my modern workplace and taking out chicken legs, hard cheese and bread for lunch like this is legit the furthest from the Shire I have ever been
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You know, I wouldn't want to make it hard
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"accidentally"
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Finally having to replace my beloved winter coat. To maintain standards the new candidate needs to be worn comfortably over a fluffy jumper with pocket space for my gloves, beanie, a roast chicken, a takeaway coffee cup full of mulled wine, and 250g of ethically sourced coffee
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... if instead of being called Terminators they were called Murder-McMurderface we would let them walk right up and blow our nostrils off while we filmed it for our social media
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BP Gregory
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The thing that's going to ultimately doom humanity is giving robots cute names
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Oh no oh sh*t I didn't know the astronauts were whistleblowers
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BP Gregory
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My vibe would be seeing something decidedly and upsettingly paranormal and saying "Huh that's weird" because omg I'm so tired
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Happy winter solstice! As is tradition I am doing all the piled up laundry and then complaining that it isn't drying like that's somehow a surprise
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